Local Plan course of retains shifting ahead – Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council

Following public hearings in May and June, Inspector Anne Jordan has now written to the authority confirming it has met its authorized obligations, setting out her preliminary findings and ideas on a number of points, and asking the council for added info to succeed in a choice on different issues.

The Local Plan gives long-term readability for residents by figuring out areas for housing, enterprise growth and neighborhood services, whereas additionally specifying which areas of the borough will likely be protected against growth.

Andrew Fear, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council’s Cabinet member for Strategic Planning, mentioned:

It’s very important that now we have the Local Plan, and essential that we get it proper, so growing and agreeing it’s inevitably an extended strategy of engagement and session, offering info and testing arguments.

 

The subject is within the fingers of the Inspector now. She is glad that the council has total carried out its work correctly and proposed a practical timescale for developments.

 

She has made choices on some facets of the proposals with is a part of the persevering with course of and requested for extra info on different elements, which we will likely be supplying as quickly as attainable.”

Andrew Fear added:

The Inspector has agreed with our arguments that distinctive circumstances exist for land to be launched from the Green Belt to satisfy the necessity to create house for companies to create, develop and shield jobs within the space, in addition to offering the houses wanted for these employees.

 

She has requested extra element about this a part of the proposed plan and we will likely be supplying it as rapidly as we will.

 

I’m additionally happy that, having withdrawn two proposed housing websites close to Audley, such is the place now that we are going to not want so as to add every other websites to compensate.”

The Council can be supplying info concerning automotive parking provision within the city centre, confirming its place that it needs the countryside park at Silverdale to stay Green Belt, and notes that the proposed hyperlink highway from the A525 Keele Road to the A53 Whitmore Road is justified and obligatory.

The Inspector’s letter and the council’s response could be seen right here and right here.

If the Planning Inspector accepts the council’s extra info, the Plan, as amended by the Inspector, then goes to a proper session stage earlier than the Inspector points her remaining report.

The remaining report would then return to Full Council to be thought of for adoption.